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Moving into 2023 will not be easy. The earth and its people are still fragile. The pandemic energy crisis, war, recession, refugee...

Source: Image by Merlin Lightpainting from Pixabay This period was an exciting one for the development of the metaverse. The book Snow...

Source: S.Herman/F. Ritcher from Pixabay Data fuels AI. The business of selling personal data can be overt or covert, and the challenge...

It was not easy. Some of you began at the start of the COVID pandemic. Some of you were frontliners - working so hard to keep us safe...

Some Lessons from the Past: The 1970s-90s A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork...

This is a small series of blog on the history of governance in the "metaverse". It is inspired from a previous paper I was part of that...

This graph is from the WIPO 2022 report. It is worrisome as the publications in humanities (and social sciences) are being drowned out by...

In the near future, the probability we will all be working with artificial intelligence (AI) to get our jobs done is a certainty. Yet we...

A futurist makes forecasts and predictions about what might happen to human society, technology, the economy and other key systems in the...

Photo: Pixabay One point of discussion during the Economist and Meta panel at the Dubai Metaverse Assembly was interoperability....

AI is the beating heart of the metaverse. AI is driving massive changes in the structure and processes we use to run the government....

I was fortunate to give a keynote along with luminaires like HE Eva Kaili, EU Vice President, Prof. Herman Russchenberg, and Pro-Vice...

According to Joseph Nye, A country’s soft power is its ability to make friends and influence people – not through military might but...

Source: Pixabay I am fascinated by the Science, Technology, and Innovation (STI) ecosystems and consult and teach the same. For example,...

For policymakers, this is a wicked problem. Complex, inter-determinant, and highly resistant to finding solutions (or at least happy...

Image: cocoparisienne (Pixabay) One of the challenges we face in AI-Management Decision Making is how we can make decisions more...

Excited to take part as a panelist during this workshop 25-26 July, by IEEE SA in partnership with the Stanford Institute for...

Image by rony michaud from Pixabay So when I am told We want to be innovative (and that is a great ambition), I always wonder why? And...

#research #appliedresearch #commercialization #patents #universityranking #innovation #innovation #STI #R&D Image: Scharferle from...

Image by Riki32 and Pixabay This paper discusses what the metaverse is (and is not), some governance lessons we can pick up from the...